[gmx-users] issue in replica exchange

[Michael Shirts]

Quick check here -- is 4.6 behaving correctly?  I actually spent some
time working on REMD in 4.6, and it seems to be behaving  correctly in
my hands with temperature and pressure control.

Thanks for any additional info on this!

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 12:58 PM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> I saw that redmine report, which could be related but it seems to happen
>> only for runs done outside the domain and particle decompositions.
>>
>> I'll fill up a red mine.
>>
>> Anything I could do to help speeding the fix?
>>
>
> What'd be really nice is some thought on how one can demonstrate that the
> implementation of the exchange matches what would be expected from the
> theory. For T-exchange under NVT, it is sufficient to rescale velocities
> and quantities derived from them by the correct factor. That includes
> various things like T-coupling history and integrator half-step quantities
> (and does REMD with leap-frog make sense anyway?). For NPT, there's
> probably also some P-coupling quantities to scale, and the box to exchange.
> Anything I've missed? Hopefully virial contributions don't matter either
> way?
>
> Perhaps a decent first step is to hack the code to do a "self exchange," by
> clearing the entire state and rebuilding with what would/should be received
> from an exchange with a hypothethetical replica in an identical
> pre-exchange state. Only if the code can do that (i.e. mdrun -reprod
> produces a trajectory indistinguishable from a run that does not attempt
> this self exchange) is it worth considering proper state exchanges, and the
> process of making the code do the former should illustrate what is required
> for the latter.
>
> Mark
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